The Islamic State group has beheaded two women in eastern Syria accused of “witchcraft and sorcery”, a monitor said Tuesday, in the jihadists’ first decapitations of female civilians.

The Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe, has described Prof Ben Nwabueze, a former Minister of Education, as a role model and custodian of tradition and custom.

President Mohammadu Buhari, Tuesday, assured that his government would ensure adequate protection of oil and gas installations across the country to prevent vandalism, oil thefts and piracy.

The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Gombe state on Tuesday granted the request of the APC and its governorship candidate, demanding a forensic examination of documents used during the 2015 Governorship election.

Let me take the first question where you say that my emergence was not the party’s position. We have it on record that at no time did the party say it has zoned this position to a particular zone. Soon after the election, the Party held a meeting at the caucus level.

IT is about one month ago that the new governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi took over the reins of power from the immediate past governor Sullivan Chime at Lion Building.

THE World Health Organisation, WHO, has validated Cuba as the first country in the world to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.

Domestic petrol production deficit has always been balanced with importation. However, the proportion of the imports has risen in the past few years to a high of about 80 percent or more of national domestic consumption, and this trend may continue considering the claim by energy officials that “there is no alternative to fuel importation”. Besides petrol, some other finished petroleum products particularly jet fuels, domestic kerosene and diesel are also imported. For many years, enormous foreign exchange has been spent perhaps unnecessarily in the name of finished white hydrocarbon importation thus putting avoidable pressure on the Naira.

A member of the Celestial Church of Christ (CCC) Board of Trustee, Evang. Samson Banjo, on Tuesday said that the church did not have a “lawful and duly accredited’’ pastor.

The immediate past Governor of Kano state, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso has approached a Gezawa High court seeking an injunction restraining the Economic and Finance Crime Commission from arresting him.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), in Osun, says the strike embarked upon by workers will continue in spite of government’s promise to pay one, out of the eight months salaries, owed workers in the State.

The Deputy Leader of the Senate, Sen. Bala Ibn-Na’Allah says only a letter from the President of the country can be read on the floor of the Senate or the House of Representatives.

The Excess Crude Account, ECA, an illegal account created by President Obasanjo during his second term on advice from the Federal Minister of Finance, at the time, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was a rogue account which served the instinct for impunity by all the governors of Nigeria, irrespective of the political party to which they belong. Those of us who questioned the transactions undertaken under the fraudulent scheme were labeled either as ignorant noise makers or enemies of progress.

Tanzania has generated plenty of buzz in the African television industry-and rightly so. For starting its digital migration process in December 2012 and completing it on 30 April 2015, the East African country succeeded where other countries, including Nigeria, failed.

The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Tuesday, reiterated that the steps taken so far by President Muhammadu Buhari, within 30 days of the life of his administration, especially in tackling corruption and insecurity‎ has outpaced the six years achievements of former President Goodluck Jonathan.